Traveling thrasher



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(No ModeL) N. s. WILSON. TRAVELING THRASHER.

Patented Jan. 26, 1886.

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N. S. WILSON.

TRAVELING THRASHER.

No. 334,833. Patented Jan. 2-6, 1886.

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UNITED STATES PATENT Urrtcn.

NEWVTON S. XVILSON, OF VEST BUTTE, CALIFORNIA.

TRAVELING TH R ASH ER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 33%,833, dated January 26, 1826.

(No modeLl To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, NEWTON S. WILsoN, of Vest Butte, Sutter county, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Traveling Thrashers; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to the class'of traveling thrashing-machines, and more especially to that class in which a wheeled frame carrying the separator, self-feeder, &c,, is adapted to travel over the field in company with the header device.

Myinvention consists in the improvements hereinafter described, and set forth in the claims.

The object of my invention is to construct a machine that may be used with any header, no matter of what pattern.

In carrying out my idea of an independent machine adapted to be used with any header the latter does not have any fixed relation as to position, because it travels independently, and therefore it would be impracticable to feed the headings from the header-spout directly to the self-feeder; but by the arrange ment of drapers and other devices which constitute my invention I provide for the proper feed of the headings from any header and at the same time have my machine independent.

Referring to the accompanying drawings,

. Figure 1 is a perspective view of my traveling thrasher. same.

A is a wheeled frame, on one end of which is located the separator B, on the top of which is the hopper O, which is supplied from the separator through the elevator D in any wellknown manner. From the hopper the grain can be taken to a suitable sacker.

E is the self-feeder, of any suitable pattern.

F is an elevated frame'work, mounted at right angles to the separator and longitudinally with the frame and at one side thereof. In this frame are mounted the drums G, over which passes the endless draper or carrier H, which moves in a horizontal plane, its rear end being in communication with the selffeeder, as shown.

I is asupplementary draper,which is mounted on the drums R in standards S. This draper, it will be observed, is at the back or Fig. 2 is a plan view of the inner edge of the horizontal draper,and is inclined toward its upper surface and travels in a line at a right angle thereto, as shown.

Motion is imparted to the drapers by the following mechanism: J is a driving-shaft, which may derive its power from any suitable source, unnecessary herein to show. From this shalt suitable belting. which need not be here shown, is adapted to drive the separator. the self-feeder, and other parts. The shaft passes through the lower portion of the separator, and has on its rear end a pulley, K, from which a belt, 70, passes to a pulley, L, on the rear end of the upper drum of the inclined or supplementary draper I. On the other end of said drum is a pulley, M, from which a belt, 1%, passes to a pulley, N, on the forward drum, G, of the horizontal draper H. The direction of revolution of the drivingshaft is such as to drive the inclined or supplementary draper down toward the horizontal draper,and to drive said horizontal draper rearwardly toward the self-feeder.-

O is the elevator-spout of a header, the remainder of the machine being unnecessary herein to show. This spout rests upon the frame-work F at any portion of its length, so that it can discharge its headings upon the horizontal draper.

The wheeled frame A has a tongue, a, by which it is drawn.

The operation of my machine is as follows: It is intended to accompany the header, though not in combination therewith, further than to receive and support the upper end of the header-spout O, which simply rests upon the edge of the frame F. The headings from the spout are discharged upon the horizontal draper H and upon the inclined or supplementary draper I, which latter prevents them from wasting and feeds and directs them down upon the horizontal draper with an even distribution longitudinally thereof, so that there is no tendency to bunch or to feed intermittently or in irregular quantities,and consequently the separator will not either choke or run empty. By the horizontal draper they are carried back to the self-feeder. It is adapted to be used with any kind of a header.

The longitudinal drapers H I provide for any irregularity in the travel of the header and the frame A, and make the independence of the two practicable, as, no matter what the difference in travel may be, the spout, by sliding back and forth along the length of frame F, is always in position to discharge upon the drapers.

Having thus described my invention, What I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. In a traveling thrasher, a wheeled frame earning the separating and other grain-handling devices, in combination with an endless traveling draper or carrier. mounted in a horizontal plane longitudinally on the side of the frame, and adapted to receive the headings from the elevator-spout of an independent header and to carry them to the separator,and an endless traveling draper inclining toward the inner edge of said draper and adapted to feed the headings received from the spout to the horizontal draper, substantially as herein described.

2. In a traveling thrasher, the wheeled frame A, carrying the grain-feeding devices, in combination with theframe F, supported 1ongitudinally on the side of the frame A, the self-feeder, the endless traveling draper or carrier H in said frame, communicating at its rear end with said feeder, the standards S on the main frame, and the endless inclined supplementary draper I, arranged to travel on a line at right angles to the draper H, substantially as herein described.

3. In a traveling thrasher, the main frame A, carrying the separating, self-feeding, and other grain-handling devices, in combination with the endless traveling drapers H I, mounted longitudinally on the side of the frame, one of said drapers being horizontal and the other inclined toward the inner edge of the horizontal draper, and the mechanism by which said drapers are driven, consisting of the driving-shaft -J, having pulley K, the drums G R, on which the drapers are mounted,the pulleys N L on the drums, and the endless belts k m, all arranged and adapted to operate substantially as herein described.

4. The combination, with the elevator-spout O of a header, of an independent Wheeled frame, the grain feeding and cleaning devices mounted thereon, the horizontal draper H, and the inclined supplementary draper I, arranged above the draper H, the said draper-s being mounted on one side of said frame and adapted to receive headings from the elevator-spout, substantially'as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

NEWTON s. wILson.

Witnesses:

O. D. COLE, J. H. BLOOD. 

